Jason: yes i agree

Jason: Its a great idea that was mentioned before. Its a pain keep joining and leaving Teams just to stop games building up. I think people would be more happy to join Teams if its easy to make themselves available or not and certainly help the Captains.

Right now, a fellowship's page is a mess of information. Some fellowships have large introduction texts and you always have to scroll down to see or do whatever you want in that fellowship.
If a fellowhip has lots of teams, and you're in a lot of them it also makes it hard to manage that, like has been said in the previous messages.

Here's my ideas:

• Divide it into multiple pages, like it is on the Profile page. Namely: "Main Page", "Members", "Teams", "Internal Torunaments"
  
• On the Main page, there would be the description as now, indication of the BigBoss and the list of discussion boards. This list, since it's usually small could be on a box on the top right, like the MostVisited DB's in the DB list page. The Main page would also have the "Leave this Fellowhip" feature, at the bottom, like now.
  
• The Members page would contain a list of all the members. With more available space, this list could contain aditional information like how many internal tournaments (s)he won or how many teams the member is in. Maybe even a link for each member that would allow the BigBoss (or anybody) to see what teams a member is in. (Suppose you want your fellowship to enter all tournaments on a given category and you know you have a great player in your ranks. Would be nice to quickly see what teams (s)he is in from that fellowship and if you need to ask him/her to join any more).
  
• Teams page would display the Teams ranks on the top, the Teams in the middle and the Team Matches results on the bottom. These last two could be filtered by game (as happens now on the teams), but could also display "All game types" and "All teams I'm captain of" (so one could manage all the teams more easilly). When displaying all teams, having check boxes to be able to join or get out of more than one team at a time would be a great adition too.
  
• Internal Tournaments would have Torunaments, Ponds and Stairs from the Fellowship.
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  This is just what I've been making up since I had the idea of spliting the fellowship page in several pages a few days ago. Feel free to comment on my ideas and add your own. I'm sure the more people show interest in this, the faster Fencer will implement it

Jason: I think that if you're in a team, you should be ready to play if needed, otherwise you shouldn't be there.

That said, I aggree that it would be nice to have a feature to allow the captains to if any players are not in the mood to play for a while, or because they'll be on vacations, or busy or whatever. That way, they could contact the player and ask him/her if (s)he would aggree to sign in for a match or not. Of course, if the captain still decides to go ahead and enter that player in the tournament, (s)he could have to face the consequences, like the player forfeiting or timing out in all games, or taking forever to move. But that's something to ponder when deciding who will be in the team.

If you don't want to play for a while you have that option - leave the team for a while. (Of course, if there was a place where you could check the teams you want to leave/enter and just submit it once it would be a lot easier to do).

pauloaguia: I basically leave all my teams that I don't want to play teat challenges on.

My problem was when the last site tournaments came along, I wanted to play on those - joined a team, then found I was in some team matches with other fellowships - some with time controls which I don't like (red/green dot games). Kind of in a no-win situation at that time since I did not want to leave - but did leave as soon as the site team tournaments started.

But would agree that it would be nice if there was some sort of "prefrence" you can choose - maybe an over all "Will play / don't want to play", along with a "Will play vacation, fixed weekend, no days off tournaments choices", along with different time choices - like not playing anything with less then 3 days.

In my fellowships, i try to keep track of what players will play and try to not include players who don't want to play certain time limits and such - but it is very hard to keep up to date and I know many fellowship captains just don't want to put that extra time in.

BIG BAD WOLF: I agrea. I was once put in a team match were it was a 3 day time limit with no vacations just before I was moving. I had to forfeit all games. With school and work I am only capable of playing games with vacation available incase I need the extra time do to sudenly being busy. I like being in teams but I had to remove myself from pretty much all because there are 2 features missing.

1) Ability to set what types of games I will play(vacation and 5+ day, excluding no time limit).
2) The ability to set max number of games. (Set in able to take team games when over 500 games.)

These settings should be for the entire site not per fellowship.

mctrivia Being able to specify all different thing would take alot of sorting out i would think, and i do agree with them.
To start with i think a simple box beside our names in any Team we are in that we can toggle available / not available, just so the Captain or Boss knows.

MadMonkey: that works for everything except games of types you do not want to play.

mctrivia: Eh ? If i am in a Logik Team and available, i can play.
If i am in Logic Team and not available, i cant play.
If i dont want to play a game type at all i would not be in the Team

MadMonkey: When I say game type I mean like vacation allowed, 5+ day time limits only.